Glitch In The Matrix Painting

What is human communication today? It’s disconnected. The slow movement from face-to-face connection to digital communication within my lifetime accelerated when COVID hit and lockdowns took place across the world. The internet took communication and distilled it down to its most basic form. We send images and words to each other in place of full interaction. The lack of body language, facial expressions, and tone make it difficult to experience connection. Digital advances have moved at an incredible pace. It’s possible to communicate with anyone, at any time, in any place, but do we really connect? The pandemic pushed me to think about how our need for communication as social beings cannot be wholly replaced with digital forms. The increase in hate and division today shows this to be the case. Brené Brown said, “People are hard to hate close up,” and communication in the time of COVID is more distanced than ever before. The lack of nuance in digital forms of communication is causing disconnection, dehumanisation, and hate. Social media platforms allow us to choose how we’re perceived by others, leaving out what we don’t want to be seen, a distorted sense of reality. Our false avatar interacting with other false avatars leads to shallow interactions void of connection. When we speak to someone but can’t see facial expressions and body language that convey unspoken meaning, can we understand someone on a deep level? Painting A Glitch in the Matrix represented the groundhog day we faced in lockdown, every day just like the one before. It also symbolised the loss of full connection, context, and nuance. Communication in the time of COVID is a simulation, as defined by Baudrillard. It looks and sounds like the real thing but lacks the very thing that underpins meaningful interaction: connection. 

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:16.3 W x 20.1 H x 0.8 D in

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